As a corrective to the American
edition of The Bell Jar, Aurelia Plath published a selection of her daughters
letters in 1975. Most of Sylvias smart-tongued comments
and sexual references were excised from the text by her mother. The April
29, 1956 letter on display about Plaths future husband, Ted Hughes,
is full of ellipses: He tells me dreams, marvelous colored dreams,
about certain red foxes . . . The original letters, which are preserved
at Indiana University in Bloomington, present a different person from
the sanitized Sivvy of Letters Home.